Brotherhood 2.0: February 21st: The Wikipedia in Your Brain
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posted by John Green @ Wednesday, February 21, 2007
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I felt like being different and putting my survey here.
1. Your name: Andrea Coleman
3 What have you been up to this past year (please be as detailed as possible, because we actually want to know)? Going to school to get a degree that will make it okay for me to do something that I’m fairly sure I’m going to loathe and despise. Here I am, finally, SENIOR YEAR. I’m a 27 year old who is finally finishing college. Why am I 27 and only now finishing college? Well, that’s simple enough. I really couldn’t decide what I wanted to be when I grew up. Unfortunately, the growing up has occurred and I still don’t know what I want to be. That’s a bold-face lie actually. I know exactly what I want to be. I want to be a writer. Have wanted to be a writer since approximately third grade. Can’t be, however, because I can only write in my head. When I sit down in front of a computer to write, I can only think to myself, “What in hell made me think I could do this?” Not conducive to the writing process. I have what I have personally titled “Fear of finding out that the only thing I want to be is the one thing I can’t be.” It’s an unwieldy title, but it gets my point across, yes? So, I shall teach English and Brit. Lit classes to middle school students whose sole purpose in life will be to make me want to murder them in vile and despicable manners (I was a middle school student once; I know how the pre-adolescent mind works.) And, when the sad truth of a permanent writer’s concrete block gets to me, I read. Those who can’t and all that. I’m also a single mother to a child who happens to think that Mommy is just about the coolest chick on the planet and that her stories pretty much rock. Ask for details again, why don’t you
4 How much longer do you think you'll be doing what you're doing? Avoiding failure by not trying at all or going to school or being a mom? Probably forever, one more frigging semester, and always (even after she reaches the age in which she wishes I would fall into a two inch deep puddle and prove that you can, in fact, drown in small amounts of water).
5 Why are you doing it? Um…well, because. I need a job that is more career less mindless, subservient nonsense (Thus, I go to school), I am comfortable with the fact that my last words will probably be, “I should have written something even if it did suck” (Thus, I do not write), and once you have the baby, being a mom is pretty much the next step. And, I love my Kendall-bug as much as most people love their next breath.
6 What do you want to be doing? God help anyone who can’t infer that answer from the above responses.
7 What's next in your life? Writing a book review of some novel by this guy, John Green. Something about Alaska, I believe. I better get an A damn it.
8 How You Doin'? Ohhhhh…”Friends” is on. And fine, thanks.
9 What's the best book you read this year? If you could see my library, you would understand that answering this question is nearly impossible. The thing is that I tend to really like every book I read on some level. Even if the plot makes me want to bang my head on a solid surface until I lose consciousness, or the characters are insipid, mind-numbing, or unbelievable, I’ll find something to like about any book I invest myself in. Best book…best book…I really liked “The Other Boleyn Girl.” I have such a weird affection for the Tudor Dynasty.
10 Describe a perfect day? I get up (after it is light outside; I want the sun to beat me one day), take a marathon bubble bath, and I don’t have anything pressing that I have to do so I can do anything I want to do. I walk to my computer and paralysis of the mind does not take over. And Kendall gets over her fear of self-flushing toilets thereby making trips to public places not so much a panic-stricken event.
11 Assuming that all things come to an end...how do you think humans will go extinct? We revoke the two terms in office policy brought about by FDR’s repeated reelection and George W. Bush is elected to a third term? I’m just spit-balling here. I’m terrified of that man.
12 How are you feeling about kids these days? I’m awfully fond of the one I’ve got. Would like some more. Someday.
13 Do you find thunderstorms soothing or scary? Soothing. The sound of rain falling on a tin roof is right up there with the ocean. My grandparents’ house had a tin roof and I used to love sleeping there. And no, I did not think of this question because there is a spectacular thunderstorm right outside my window. Ok, yes I did. Still a good question though.
14 Ambrozzo tastes better than anything else, what does ambrozzo taste like? Whatever I want to eat that is not readily available. Do you know what I’m talking about? For instance, I can be at a fantastic seafood restaurant and there is lobster RIGHT there. I will not want said lobster then. No, no. I will want it the next day when it is no longer RIGHT there.
15 If you were a cliché, what cliché would you be? Those who can’t do, teach. Seriously.
16 What is your least favorite part of any given day? That would be early morning. Especially on the very rare Saturday when Kendall does not get up at seven, yet I get up at six because my body is hard-wired to do so.
17 Do you enjoy science fiction? So much.
18 Cheese or Chocolate? Chocolate
19 Where would you live if you could live anywhere? I’m not exactly sure where specifically, but I am absolutely positive that there is a beach outside my bedroom window and I go to sleep and wake up to the sound of the surf.
20 What was your first concert? Jimmy Buffett. Yep, I’m a Parrothead.
21 If you could start a business that would be instantly successful, what kind of business would it be? Not so much a business as an organization, if you will. I would create a place where children could live in a secure environment until their parents managed to sober up. Prescription drug abuse and meth addiction is an astronomically and disproportionately huge problem where I live. I see what it does to kids. That’s what I would want to successfully remedy.
22 Invisibility or Time Travel? Time travel.
23 What's wrong with the world? I can’t even begin to get into that.
February 16, 2007
Hey John,
I just discovered your blog via B2.0, and I've been reading through some of the archives. Did you ever picked an Alaska sountrack winner? If so, point me toward it, and if not, you should--or you should at least post some of the entries. I have a fascination with mixes, and would love to see what folks came up with.
Brilliant and haunting wiki idea...love/hate it. And to think I and other librarains in Michigan get to see both you AND M T Anderson at the same workshop next month. Not so much haunting but definitely brilliant!
Vive la Yeti (yours)! :)
Wikipedia in your brain? _Or_ wikipidia in your _pants_??
If John and Hank traded glasses, I'm pretty sure Ino one would no longer be able to tell them apart.
^^ AHAH... i bet i could.
and nice survey 'anonymous, or should i say ANDREA COLEMAN. i actually read the whole thing.
(is this considered spam?)
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